Strong's Concordance H4428

Original Word: מֶלֶךְ
Transliteration: melek
Phonetic Spelling: meh'-lek
from H4427; a king; king, royal.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Chronicles 18:17 - And the king H4428 of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

2 Chronicles 18:19 - And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king H4428 of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

2 Chronicles 18:25 - Then the king H4428 of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's H4428 son;

2 Chronicles 18:26 - And say, Thus saith the king, H4428 Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

2 Chronicles 18:28 - So the king H4428 of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king H4428 of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.

2 Chronicles 18:29 - And the king H4428 of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king H4428 of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

2 Chronicles 18:30 - Now the king H4428 of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king H4428 of Israel.

2 Chronicles 18:31 - And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king H4428 of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

2 Chronicles 18:32 - For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king H4428 of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.

2 Chronicles 18:33 - And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king H4428 of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

2 Chronicles 18:34 - And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king H4428 of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

2 Chronicles 19:1 - And Jehoshaphat the king H4428 of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 19:2 - And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king H4428 Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

2 Chronicles 19:11 - And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's H4428 matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.

2 Chronicles 20:15 - And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king H4428 Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

2 Chronicles 20:34 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings H4428 of Israel.

2 Chronicles 20:35 - And after this did Jehoshaphat king H4428 of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king H4428 of Israel, who did very wickedly:

2 Chronicles 21:2 - And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king H4428 of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:6 - And he walked in the way of the kings H4428 of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 21:8 - In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king. H4428

2 Chronicles 21:12 - And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king H4428 of Judah,

2 Chronicles 21:13 - But hast walked in the way of the kings H4428 of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:

2 Chronicles 21:17 - And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's H4428 house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

2 Chronicles 21:20 - Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings. H4428

2 Chronicles 22:1 - And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king H4428 of Judah reigned.

2 Chronicles 22:5 - He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king H4428 of Israel to war against Hazael king H4428 of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.

2 Chronicles 22:6 - And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king H4428 of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king H4428 of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.

2 Chronicles 22:11 - But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, H4428 took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's H4428 sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king H4428 Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.

2 Chronicles 23:3 - And all the congregation made a covenant with the king H4428 in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's H4428 son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.

2 Chronicles 23:5 - And a third part shall be at the king's H4428 house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 23:7 - And the Levites shall compass the king H4428 round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king H4428 when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

2 Chronicles 23:9 - Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king H4428 David's, which were in the house of God.

2 Chronicles 23:10 - And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king H4428 round about.

2 Chronicles 23:11 - Then they brought out the king's H4428 son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king. H4428

2 Chronicles 23:12 - Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, H4428 she came to the people into the house of the LORD:

2 Chronicles 23:13 - And she looked, and, behold, the king H4428 stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: H4428 and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

2 Chronicles 23:15 - So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's H4428 house, they slew her there.

2 Chronicles 23:16 - And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, H4428 that they should be the LORD'S people.

2 Chronicles 23:20 - And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king H4428 from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's H4428 house, and set the king H4428 upon the throne of the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 24:6 - And the king H4428 called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

2 Chronicles 24:8 - And at the king's H4428 commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:11 - Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's H4428 office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's H4428 scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

2 Chronicles 24:12 - And the king H4428 and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:14 - And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king H4428 and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

2 Chronicles 24:16 - And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, H4428 because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.

2 Chronicles 24:17 - Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. H4428 Then the king H4428 hearkened unto them.

2 Chronicles 24:21 - And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king H4428 in the court of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:22 - Thus Joash the king H4428 remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

2 Chronicles 24:23 - And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king H4428 of Damascus.

2 Chronicles 24:25 - And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings. H4428